<B>Don Weatherburn</​B> has been the director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research since 1988. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1998 and made a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2006. He is the author of two books and more than 180 articles, book chapters, and reports on crime and criminal justice.

Contents

Cover ; Praise for Arresting Incarceration; Title Page ; Copyright ; Epigraph; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The problem of Indigenous over-representation in prison; In the beginning; Indigenous adult over-representation in custody; The consequences of Indigenous over-representation in prison; Chapter 2 A short history of Indigenous imprisonment; The effects of colonisation and dispossession; The lead-up to the Royal Commission; Chapter 3 The Royal Commission and its aftermath; The advent of the Royal Commission.

Research on the effects of poor parenting, neglectand child abuseResearch on the effects of poor school attendance, performance and retention; Research on the effects of unemployment; Research on the effects of substance abuse; Child neglect and abuse in Indigenous Australia; Poor school retention and performance in Indigenous Australia; Unemployment in Indigenous Australia; Substance abuse in Indigenous Australia; Summary; Chapter 7 Responding to Indigenous offending; Constraints on policy; The distinction between 'stock' and 'flow'; A profile of Indigenous prisoners.

Get this edition

Freely available

How do I set up "My libraries"?

In order to set up a list of libraries that you have access to,
you must first login
or sign up.
Then set up a personal list of libraries from your profile page by
clicking on your user name at the top right of any screen.